skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the best Dells and Lenovo's for Linux and it's still not as good as my System76 integration. With my 76, I just use it and upgrade it, with the others I always have little things that don't quite work unless I cast a magic spell and turn around 4 times.

100 percent of my 76 laptop works, not just 99 percent like the others.
You can send something to the Moon, for free
What annoys me is that it insists on transcoding when streaming remotely. I have plenty of bandwidth and everything is set to maximum quality but it still tries to transcode and breaks more often than not. It works fine when I'm on a ssh tunnel and it thinks I'm on the same network.
From the reading of the text, it’s a serialized job queue for arbitrary commands submitted from the command line. It’s the equivalent of “cmd1 & cmd2 & cmd3” except all are put to the background and will be run serially one after another. And new command is automatically added to the end.
> That is, treating a webpage like an application instead of a document.

That’s not why. It’s ad networks and tracking scripts. Notice that single page application frameworks show up exactly zero times on the list of worst offenders.
Shannon did not use the word intelligence to describe the mouse in this demonstration - instead, he talked about learning. That's why the second run was considered more important than whatever algorithm was used to solve the maze.

To that end, I'm curious about their cache invalidation solution. Are there timestamps, or is it a flag system?
I strongly believe that in the next four to five years a majority of the content on the platform will be machine generated. It's fascinating how many military weapons history / "news" channels are almost 100% voiced by machines and placed over public domain gov't produced video of the navy / airforce [0].

Always very interesting to see the kinds of audio / video dithering used to defeat the YouTube algorithm!

0 - https://www.youtube.com/c/MilitaryUpdate/videos
https://www.pcisynthesis.com/want-to-know-why-early-drug-dev...

and

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/modern-drug-discovery...

are decent reads.

Mostly it's the complexity of the compounds involved, the supply chain, and regulatory costs.
counter strike

google reader

google wave
The Gescopo in LA County
Doing it once and not being properly prepared does make you a reckless person. To use an exaggerated example like you did, would you go skydiving without taking a class ahead of time? Would you go without a parachute? Would you go without a backup?

Stop being facetious just to prove your point, please.
The Spaghetti Code Conjecture
Based on my 15 years of experience (similar for my partner), there are a lot of cash flow positive companies in the US who pay a lot. They don't need venture capital at all. So there must be some other reason (profitability? SV culture of valuing engineers?)

When I was at Google, I learned from an internal pay comparison spreadsheet that a person in the same job at the same level is paid much worse in Waterloo (and in the UK as well) compared to SV / NYC, and the reason cited was "cost of labor" or some such fancy term which essentially meant "we want to pay as little as possible, so a little bit more than our competitors". So ultimately, it boils down to "prevailing wages" in Canada (and the UK).

The first company to offer SV level wages in Canada / UK will see a deluge of high quality applicants who want to stay in those locations for whatever reasons. I wonder why no one has tried that yet.
Well, if this unit was making constant money over 16 years (directly and indirectly), and have paid for itself already, it is not a bad move.
Every site is a JS-application monster because of the 3rd party add-ons people feel they need to have.

Running Google or FaceBook ads? You need analytics, pixels and event trackers to know if you're ads are working optimally.

ReCaptcha v3 is a good way to slow down your site as are hero banner sliders (5% of sites were running GreenSock + Waypoint), also some flavour of interactive chat. Some 3rd party plugins simply don't work with async/defer or still use DOM write().
TSMC 7nm vs 5nm could make for some of the difference
I don't understand _how on earth_ Robinhood's relationship with HFT firms is even legal.
Apart from it being academic citation ransomware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15319715
Unless you get the pop-up from the site that says, "We see you're using an ad blocker. You need to turn it off in order to access our site."

Along with some marketing drivel about how its important advertisers get their ad revenue.
> And surely the complexity is still in the CO with the internet

Your cable modem (which has a CPU and does high-speed signaling) or your FIOS box is much more complicated than an analog phone.

The carrier-grade router on the other end of your cable modem is really just a bigger version of routers you buy off the shelf or for enterprises. It's literally routing IP packets in the same way.

Whereas you have to have a whole switching system at the other end of an analog voice CO. (Or an operator making physical connections if we're still in the 1800's). The best you can do for yourself in that world today is get an PBX system like an old NEC NEAX box or similar, but you're still not going to be on the same level as the CO.
Nah you got it.

There's a form of synthesizers where you start with simple sin waves that sounds electronic and mechanical. You layer various overtones on it to create more realistic sounds. Gettign the same richnesss as a real instrument is tough since there tends to be aspects of "sub-structure" for lack of another word. Really cool stuff.
How to Build a Culture of Ownership, and Other Eng Leadership Tips from Plaid
The first source just measured declining antibodies, but the real picture about immunity is more complex than that. The second doesn't say what you think it says.
With Revue and Substack, do the authors have access to subscriber email addresses? If so, that would somewhat blunt concerns like this, both directly (if you are booted off the platform) and indirectly (presumably the platforms would be less aggressive in their rules/enforcement if it is easy for authors to leave).
Hyperledger ecosystem is good stuff
Because it happened a few days after, not immediately, and there was nothing on the news about that. It was working fine immediately after, although people then mostly got their news from TV; a major event didn't increase bandwidth usage as drastically as today.
For a long time I had a similar setup, but I was just playing Thunderstruck by AC/DC. It stars quietly, the volume of the song increase slowly, and you have like a minute to get up and turn it off before they guy start to cry and wake up all your family.
Yes there is! Because in the MBP 13" at 2160p I could keep 2x scaling, which is much better than this 1.3x/1.5x fractional scaling I have to keep in the Dell XPS 13".
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917326.
This brings up a good related question, which is:

What is the most reliable hard drive of all time, and why?

In other words, let's say I didn't care about capacity, and I didn't care about access time or data transfer rate, and I'd like a drive to store data 100, 200+ years into the future and have it have a reasonable chance of getting that data there -- then what kind of hard drive should I choose, and why?

It's a purely philosophical question...

Perhaps I, or someone else, should ask this question on Ask HN... I think the responses would be interesting...
Ah, yes, amateur astronomy on Mars. Something we'll not be able to do in my lifetime sadly.
>> The AI was the search algorithm to find an effecient solution to the maze, not the mouse being able to navigate it later in a second run.

But that's not the whole story! The program can update its solution of the maze when the maze changes, but it is capable of only changing that part of the solution that has actually changed. When Shannon changes the maze and places Theseus in the modified part of the maze, I kind of rolled my eyes, sure that it was going to start a new search, all over again, but I was wrong: it searches until it finds where the unmodified part of the maze begins, then it continues on the path it learned before.

It seems that, in solving the maze, the program is building some kind of model of its world, that it can then manipulate with economy. For comparison, neural nets cannot update their models - when the world changes, a neural net can only train its model all over again, from scratch, just like I thought Theseus would start a whole new search when Shannon changed the maze. And neural nets can certainly not update parts of their models!

This demonstration looks primitive because everything is so old (a computer made with telephone relays!), but it's actually attacking problems that continue to tie AI systems of today into knots. It is certainly AI. And, in "early 1950's", it's AI avant la lettre.
What does it take to create a GPT-3 product?
I use a couple dozen tools on a regular basis. JIRA is by far the worst. The functionality is ok. Maybe it is a bit bloated. Maybe our process is a little over complicated. That's not a big deal. The thing that really gets me is performance.

The performance is absolute dog shit. Every interaction with it painfully slow. For example, the page to view a single issue is almost 20MB fetched over 100 HTTP requests and takes 10 seconds to load. This is without cache. With assets cached, it is still 4 seconds to render. This is the fastest interaction by the way. Everything else is worse.

Maybe some of this is my organization's fault. I really don't know. What I do know is that it is so slow that I dread every interaction with it.
The market can stay wrong longer than you can stay out of the asylum.
Thanks, we don't have a visual graph, but thinking about adding a user identity expressed through a graph of notes. We'd like to explore new ways on how to better surface the writer's content to the reader and enhance curation.
I think the big problem in adtech isn't just targeting, it's also fighting ad fraud. Do you have a good plan for when you become big enough to become a target for ad fraud?
In the US, wire transfers can incur fees for both sender and recipient. ACH is more often used by medium to large businesses transferring money from or to consumers, but the ergonomics are pretty bad for one-off person to person transfers, to the point that if you hire a plumber who owns their own business, they'll probably accept check, and sometimes accept credit cards.

The US does have some electronic networks for instant, no-cost p2p payments. https://www.zellepay.com/ has a large number of participating major banks with some major exceptions. A lot of people use https://venmo.com/ or https://cash.app/ which are not directly integrated with banks but then offer electronic transfer of funds to bank accounts.
The fact that write(), close(), rename() isn't safe unless you fsync is pretty annoying.
Has the SEC ever considered the market value of a stock false information in this way before?

Edit: and as to your first point, it has always been legal to say, hey, I am buying this stock, I like it, I recommend you buy it too. That alone is definitely not manipulation.
But these are just some raw thoughts...
Also Pueue (https://github.com/Nukesor/pueue)
Funny to see this post here... This is actually the next feature of Psono which can be used for free ... :)
Another gotcha would be UDP based services. Since it is packet oriented and not connection oriented, when should it re-resolve? Most will not until the application is restarted.
There are some real problems (such as healthcare and education costs), sure, but so many of the things that cause anxiety are self-inflicted. 1950s-level tech and medicine would be cheap, but you can't buy that today at any price. Relationships are harder because of changing social norms, not because we're too poor. The Capitol storming was a dumb stunt that's being milked for all the political capital it's worth.

The movie "Network" has all the same anxieties, (our country has been bought by the highest bidder, the air isn't fit to breathe, etc.)--if things are broken, they've been broken for 50 years, so I'm not convinced that the kids aren't all right.
When questioned by congress google offered up manually down ranking the Wobblies as an example of them combating 'populism'
> Because there are very few software/IT companies in Canada (or Europe or almost anywhere else except China) with revenues like US software/IT giants.

I replied elsewhere in the thread but this is simply not true based on what I have seen first hand at companies like Google. They have a presence in Canada / UK, but pay at a much lower rate than SV for the same job/level/performance. So profitability or a lack of revenue seems just an excuse.
Or just add the filter list [1] to uBlock Origin

1. https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
I am typing this on a Dell XPS 15 w/ a 4K OLED running Gentoo .

But more to your point, yes, there are few laptops with good screens that have awesome Linux compatibility. They exist, certainly, but there are not too many of them.
> a majority of HNers are using a browser made by

How do you know what browser the majority of HNers are using?
Well, yes, it is. Not sure what point you’re trying to make?
Love Firefox for Android but my how bad the history screen is. You can either delete one by one or delete everything at once. No option for multiple selection or time-based deletion (clear last hour's history).
A small business owner I used to work for got sued for fax blasting people when the marketing company he hired was sending out some 2K faxes per day to unsuspecting business owners.

I still laugh about how he got several cease and desist letters and still continued sending the same businesses stuff.

Ahhhhhhh yeah, the good old days.
But if sudo were written in Rust, it could have the same level of complexity and not be vulnerable.

Yes, it would still be vulnerable to logic errors, like the last famous sudo bug where you pass -1 as the UID. But it wouldn't be vulnerable to this. (And this isn't the first memory safety bug to be found in sudo.)

Yes, sudo's complexity is useless for 99.99% of its users. But wouldn't it be nice if the result were merely a gross feeling rather than a security hole?
It has to do with the time value of money and long development timelines. Here is a great blog post from a scientist trying to find investors for drug to cure his wife's terminal disease.[1]

>it takes a hundred dollars of drug revenue 17 years from now to motivate someone to invest one dollar today. No wonder drugs are expensive.

That is a 10,000% return on investment required to break even.

http://www.cureffi.org/2019/04/29/financial-modeling-in-rare...
And the the time value of money. see my sibling post.
A fair assessment. If we decide as a society that this sort of platform should be regulated, then Facebook has to deal with that. Of course, there will be precedent then for government regulation of places like HN too.
Of course they are colored. Like this: http://www.evertopcomms.com/144-fiber-count-gyts-fiber-optic...

It is still a lot of work, and so far not automated.
The mpv example was my main thought. If you want to add something to a playlist using mpv's playlist feature you have to stop and restart mpv.
I'm not sure if he can do much.

Gamestop has the same problem that drove other retailers like suncoast, sam goody, strawberries, and many other ones out of business; you cannot survive the digitalization of your primary products.

Gamestop relies on console systems and videogames both new and used to make the core of its primary business. These are what draw people into their locations and to their web site, and allow add on sales like memberships, warranties, collectibles, and accessories to be sold. They generally go to malls, either interior or open.

The problem is the decrease in physical games over digital kills the primary reason to go into their stores, and also prevents middlemen from existing; there is no value add to getting a digital code from gamestop as opposed to steam, ps store, etc. It also murders the high value used game and console sales because now there is less product to trade in.

That just leaves them with collectibles, which they've always been low quality and too expensive, accessories, and a tiny assortment of physical games that now they barely even have stock of. They "advertise" the top 100 games or so in their store, yet don't have stock of many of them ,and their used games are barely a shelf of them.

The problem with being an internet retailer is amazon already does what they do better; it's an uphill battle where they have no real value add. Even Amazon seems to have less and less new physical games, and they have an infinite amount of chinese sellers dramatically lowering the price of game accessories.

I don't see any way to be bullish on them because of their actual business.

edit: its not just them. There's a regional game store chain where I live, and they suffer the exact same problems. They are desperately trying to carry anything and everything geek related just to fill the store with inventory; records, collectible card games, comics, manga, crt tvs, used movies, anime accessories, model kits, etc. They actually are losing the game store focus, as used product even in the retro market is dead now...very few retro systems and games.
What orbits should Starlink not own?
I just effortlessly synced Freshdesk to Postgres in 20 minutes. Thank you.
The same would supposedly apply to Peloton, and yet they're successful beyond belief...
Any idea why did they referenced Baron Samedi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Samedi
Why not change the resolution on the laptop? Both my laptop and monitor have the same screen resolution, but I have configured Cinnamon to set the laptop display to only 1920x1080 when the external monitor is attached so its more readable at a distance. When unplugging hdmi the laptop display switches back to full resolution automatically.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917559.
Yes. This was coordinated on the distros mailing list, which has maximum embargo period of 14 days, with periods shorter than 7 days preferable:

https://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros...
3k month sounds about right for a chronic condition.

Many many people pay at least this to stay alive. That said , Universal Health Care is needed for stuff like this to work. At 3k a month it makes the most sense to try and emigrate to a better country.
Agreed, that is a great example. That an oriented strand board or OSB.
Original blog post from Google: https://blog.google/technology/health/vaccines-how-were-help...

One excerpt from the blog post but not the article is that Google is opening vaccination sites with a partner company:

"To help with vaccination efforts, starting in the United States, we’ll make select Google facilities—such as buildings, parking lots and open spaces—available as needed. These sites will be open to anyone eligible for the vaccine based on state and local guidelines. We’ll start by partnering with health care provider One Medical and public health authorities to open sites in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in California; Kirkland, Washington; and New York City, with plans to expand nationally. We’re working with local officials to determine when sites can open based on local vaccine availability."

I wonder how accurate the data will be compared to a "patient-side researched" site like https://www.vaccinateca.com/
In a SaaS world, Tucows closes the Internet shareware barn doors
Doesn't help if you like to loop the playlist, though.
Nope, GNOME actually supports mixed scaling with Wayland and works just fine on my Dell XPS 13. I regularly connect a normal DPI external monitor and things scale just fine across both HiDPI internal and normal DPI external screen.
It is still not a nice thing to do. Can we at-least agree on that?
Recently found replication-critical structure may enable novel COVID-19 therapy
GameStop jumps another 90% above $140, but short sellers aren’t backing down
Try garlic leaves also, if you haven't already..
My understanding (not based in any experience, though I hope to get some this year) is that this is a limitation of X11, but that Wayland properly supports per-screen scaling (so long as the compositor does).
The primary value traders provide is liquidity and decreased volatility. There is a fixed need for these two services.

Once you have served every customer the only way to make more money is to take customers away from other competitors, or grow the market as a whole. Traders do not influence the size of the market, they only increase efficiency, so the expectation is that you run into diminishing returns stays.

There is more than enough liquidity in the markets. Any more liquidity is not providing any value.

>Without these trades, the market would lack liquidity, and companies would see an increase in their cost of new capital - which is bad for everyone because it means companies wouldn't invest in growth, equipment purchases, new jobs, etc...

The Fed is already taking care of that. The bigger problem is that there is no reason to invest the Fed money and grow the market.
And how would you address this problem?
> Say I want to set the alarm for 9:30, just in time to be ten minutes late for tennis.

Haha. What a ridiculous time to get up - from my perspective at least having young children that are up at 6:30 the latest. That’s the reason why I won’t need your clock. I wholeheartedly agree though that it’s “sexy”. Niiice!
Google’s Enterprise zero trust security platform is now generally available
IKEA is a trash company, if they really wanted to be sustainable they would stop purchasing wood from reservations (aka illegal sources)
I'm pretty sure that "easier" is a subjective determination. But no, I don't have a hard time swallowing pills. It's just that doing something once a week is easier than having to remember to do something everyday. The injections are also more effective for me, as they are here. And finally there's an aesthetic aspect to plunging a needle into one's muscle that I appreciate.
The relays are behind the maze- what's under the maze is a couple of arms with electromagnets that move to drag the mouse around the maze.

In fact the "relays" are an electromechanical computer. I don't know much about the computers of that era, but since this is in Bell Labs in the early '50s, it may have been the model VI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_V#Model_VI
I knew about it, but years go by and I can't honestly say that I ever needed it.
What kind of digital hoarder are you? Study identifies 4 distinct types
Annual average revenue per (active) user (from North America) is about $180 for Google, $150 for Facebook, and $80 for Twitter. As you might expect, Amazon has far higher revenue per user ($700), and Apple is about $140, but they're both more like $30 when you only count their advertising revenue instead of much lower-margin retail and hardware manufacturing businesses.

Searching for "ARPU" news will give articles with new takes every time anyone publishes new quarterly numbers, but those are roughly accurate. Obviously, they can be distorted to tell whatever story you want by messing with market segmentation, time period, and what kind of revenue/profit/margin/expenses/capital you want to invoke, but those are rough numbers.

To be clear, those are first-party advertising companies, this isn't the value of a page view to a random blog with side-roll ads from some third-party advertisers/trackers. I have no idea what Taboola/Outbrain chumboxes generate other than that they both have $1B revenue and there are about 5B Internet users worldwide, which means the average user is worth $0.20 per year to them. And it's reasonable to assume the majority of their revenue comes from wealthy English speaking adults, so maybe your demographic is worth $5 or something like that.
Not even with the DLNA server that is included?